This checklist includes all bird species found in Corse , based on the best information available at this time. It is based on a wide variety of sources that I collated over many years. I am pleased to offer these checklists as a service to birdwatchers. If you find any error, please do not hesitate to .
The taxonomic order and nomenclature follows Clements, version 2023. If you prefer to view the list based on a different authority, click on one of the list available below. Globally threatened species (status in red) were identified by Birdlife International in Birdlife Data Zone (species).
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Graylag Goose | Anser anser | |
Greater White-fronted Goose | Anser albifrons | |
Barnacle Goose | Branta leucopsis | |
Mute Swan | Cygnus olor | |
Tundra Swan | Cygnus columbianus | Rare/Accidental |
Ruddy Shelduck | Tadorna ferruginea | Rare/Accidental |
Common Shelduck | Tadorna tadorna | |
Mandarin Duck | Aix galericulata | Rare/Accidental |
Garganey | Spatula querquedula | |
Blue-winged Teal | Spatula discors | Rare/Accidental |
Northern Shoveler | Spatula clypeata | |
Gadwall | Mareca strepera | |
Eurasian Wigeon | Mareca penelope | |
Mallard | Anas platyrhynchos | |
Northern Pintail | Anas acuta | |
Green-winged Teal | Anas crecca | |
Marbled Duck | Marmaronetta angustirostris | Extirpated Near-threatened |
Red-crested Pochard | Netta rufina | |
Common Pochard | Aythya ferina | Vulnerable |
Ferruginous Duck | Aythya nyroca | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
Tufted Duck | Aythya fuligula | |
Greater Scaup | Aythya marila | Rare/Accidental |
Common Eider | Somateria mollissima | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
Velvet Scoter | Melanitta fusca | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
Common Scoter | Melanitta nigra | Rare/Accidental |
Long-tailed Duck | Clangula hyemalis | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
Common Goldeneye | Bucephala clangula | Rare/Accidental |
Smew | Mergellus albellus | Rare/Accidental |
Common Merganser | Mergus merganser | Rare/Accidental |
Red-breasted Merganser | Mergus serrator | |
Ruddy Duck | Oxyura jamaicensis | Introduced species |
White-headed Duck | Oxyura leucocephala | Extirpated Endangered |
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California Quail | Callipepla californica | Introduced species |
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Ring-necked Pheasant | Phasianus colchicus | Introduced species |
Common Quail | Coturnix coturnix | |
Red-legged Partridge | Alectoris rufa | Introduced species Near-threatened |
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Greater Flamingo | Phoenicopterus roseus | |
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Little Grebe | Tachybaptus ruficollis | |
Horned Grebe | Podiceps auritus | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
Red-necked Grebe | Podiceps grisegena | Rare/Accidental |
Great Crested Grebe | Podiceps cristatus | |
Eared Grebe | Podiceps nigricollis | |
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Rock Pigeon | Columba livia | |
Stock Dove | Columba oenas | |
Common Wood-Pigeon | Columba palumbus | |
European Turtle-Dove | Streptopelia turtur | Vulnerable |
Eurasian Collared-Dove | Streptopelia decaocto | |
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Little Bustard | Tetrax tetrax | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
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Great Spotted Cuckoo | Clamator glandarius | Rare/Accidental |
Common Cuckoo | Cuculus canorus | |
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Red-necked Nightjar | Caprimulgus ruficollis | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
Eurasian Nightjar | Caprimulgus europaeus | |
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Alpine Swift | Tachymarptis melba | |
Common Swift | Apus apus | |
Pallid Swift | Apus pallidus | |
Little Swift | Apus affinis | Rare/Accidental |
White-rumped Swift | Apus caffer | Rare/Accidental |
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Water Rail | Rallus aquaticus | |
Corn Crake | Crex crex | Rare/Accidental |
Spotted Crake | Porzana porzana | |
Lesser Moorhen | Paragallinula angulata | Rare/Accidental |
Eurasian Moorhen | Gallinula chloropus | |
Eurasian Coot | Fulica atra | |
Western Swamphen | Porphyrio porphyrio | Rare/Accidental |
Little Crake | Zapornia parva | |
Baillon's Crake | Zapornia pusilla | Rare/Accidental |
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Common Crane | Grus grus | |
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Eurasian Thick-knee | Burhinus oedicnemus | |
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Black-winged Stilt | Himantopus himantopus | |
Pied Avocet | Recurvirostra avosetta | |
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Eurasian Oystercatcher | Haematopus ostralegus | Near-threatened |
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Black-bellied Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | |
European Golden-Plover | Pluvialis apricaria | |
Eurasian Dotterel | Eudromias morinellus | Rare/Accidental |
Common Ringed Plover | Charadrius hiaticula | |
Little Ringed Plover | Charadrius dubius | |
Northern Lapwing | Vanellus vanellus | Near-threatened |
Kentish Plover | Anarhynchus alexandrinus | |
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Upland Sandpiper | Bartramia longicauda | Rare/Accidental |
Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | |
Eurasian Curlew | Numenius arquata | Near-threatened |
Bar-tailed Godwit | Limosa lapponica | Near-threatened |
Black-tailed Godwit | Limosa limosa | Near-threatened |
Jack Snipe | Lymnocryptes minimus | |
Eurasian Woodcock | Scolopax rusticola | |
Great Snipe | Gallinago media | Near-threatened |
Common Snipe | Gallinago gallinago | |
Wilson's Phalarope | Phalaropus tricolor | Rare/Accidental |
Terek Sandpiper | Xenus cinereus | Rare/Accidental |
Common Sandpiper | Actitis hypoleucos | |
Green Sandpiper | Tringa ochropus | |
Marsh Sandpiper | Tringa stagnatilis | |
Wood Sandpiper | Tringa glareola | |
Common Redshank | Tringa totanus | |
Spotted Redshank | Tringa erythropus | |
Common Greenshank | Tringa nebularia | |
Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | |
Red Knot | Calidris canutus | Near-threatened |
Ruff | Calidris pugnax | |
Broad-billed Sandpiper | Calidris falcinellus | Rare/Accidental |
Curlew Sandpiper | Calidris ferruginea | Near-threatened |
Temminck's Stint | Calidris temminckii | |
Sanderling | Calidris alba | |
Dunlin | Calidris alpina | |
Little Stint | Calidris minuta | |
Least Sandpiper | Calidris minutilla | Rare/Accidental |
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Cream-colored Courser | Cursorius cursor | Rare/Accidental |
Collared Pratincole | Glareola pratincola | |
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Long-tailed Jaeger | Stercorarius longicaudus | Rare/Accidental |
Parasitic Jaeger | Stercorarius parasiticus | Rare/Accidental |
Pomarine Jaeger | Stercorarius pomarinus | |
Great Skua | Stercorarius skua | |
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Atlantic Puffin | Fratercula arctica | Vulnerable |
Razorbill | Alca torda | |
Dovekie | Alle alle | Rare/Accidental |
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Little Gull | Hydrocoloeus minutus | |
Black-legged Kittiwake | Rissa tridactyla | Vulnerable |
Sabine's Gull | Xema sabini | Rare/Accidental |
Slender-billed Gull | Chroicocephalus genei | |
Black-headed Gull | Chroicocephalus ridibundus | |
Pallas's Gull | Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus | Rare/Accidental |
Audouin's Gull | Ichthyaetus audouinii | Vulnerable |
Mediterranean Gull | Ichthyaetus melanocephalus | |
Common Gull | Larus canus | |
Caspian Gull | Larus cachinnans | |
Herring Gull | Larus argentatus | |
Yellow-legged Gull | Larus michahellis | |
Lesser Black-backed Gull | Larus fuscus | |
Little Tern | Sternula albifrons | |
Gull-billed Tern | Gelochelidon nilotica | |
Caspian Tern | Hydroprogne caspia | |
Whiskered Tern | Chlidonias hybrida | |
Black Tern | Chlidonias niger | |
White-winged Tern | Chlidonias leucopterus | |
Arctic Tern | Sterna paradisaea | |
Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | |
Sandwich Tern | Thalasseus sandvicensis | |
Lesser Crested Tern | Thalasseus bengalensis | Rare/Accidental |
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Red-throated Loon | Gavia stellata | Rare/Accidental |
Arctic Loon | Gavia arctica | |
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Black-browed Albatross | Thalassarche melanophris | Rare/Accidental |
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European Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates pelagicus | |
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Bulwer's Petrel | Bulweria bulwerii | Rare/Accidental |
Cory's Shearwater | Calonectris diomedea | |
Manx Shearwater | Puffinus puffinus | |
Yelkouan Shearwater | Puffinus yelkouan | Vulnerable |
Balearic Shearwater | Puffinus mauretanicus | Critically endangered |
Barolo Shearwater | Puffinus baroli | Rare/Accidental |
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Black Stork | Ciconia nigra | |
White Stork | Ciconia ciconia | |
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Northern Gannet | Morus bassanus | |
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Pygmy Cormorant | Microcarbo pygmaeus | Rare/Accidental |
Great Cormorant | Phalacrocorax carbo | |
European Shag | Gulosus aristotelis | |
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Great White Pelican | Pelecanus onocrotalus | Rare/Accidental |
Pink-backed Pelican | Pelecanus rufescens | Uncertain origin |
Dalmatian Pelican | Pelecanus crispus | Uncertain origin Near-threatened |
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Great Bittern | Botaurus stellaris | |
Little Bittern | Ixobrychus minutus | |
Black-crowned Night Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | |
Little Egret | Egretta garzetta | |
Western Reef-Heron | Egretta gularis | Rare/Accidental |
Squacco Heron | Ardeola ralloides | |
Western Cattle Egret | Bubulcus ibis | |
Great Egret | Ardea alba | |
Gray Heron | Ardea cinerea | |
Purple Heron | Ardea purpurea | |
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Glossy Ibis | Plegadis falcinellus | |
African Sacred Ibis | Threskiornis aethiopicus | Introduced species |
Northern Bald Ibis | Geronticus eremita | Introduced species Endangered |
Eurasian Spoonbill | Platalea leucorodia | |
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Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | |
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Bearded Vulture | Gypaetus barbatus | Near-threatened |
European Honey-buzzard | Pernis apivorus | |
Cinereous Vulture | Aegypius monachus | Near-threatened |
Eurasian Griffon | Gyps fulvus | Rare/Accidental |
Short-toed Snake-Eagle | Circaetus gallicus | |
Lesser Spotted Eagle | Clanga pomarina | Rare/Accidental |
Booted Eagle | Hieraaetus pennatus | Rare/Accidental |
Imperial Eagle | Aquila heliaca | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
Golden Eagle | Aquila chrysaetos | |
Bonelli's Eagle | Aquila fasciata | Rare/Accidental |
Western Marsh Harrier | Circus aeruginosus | |
Hen Harrier | Circus cyaneus | |
Pallid Harrier | Circus macrourus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
Montagu's Harrier | Circus pygargus | |
Eurasian Sparrowhawk | Accipiter nisus | |
Eurasian Goshawk | Accipiter gentilis | |
Red Kite | Milvus milvus | |
Black Kite | Milvus migrans | |
White-tailed Eagle | Haliaeetus albicilla | Rare/Accidental |
Common Buzzard | Buteo buteo | |
Long-legged Buzzard | Buteo rufinus | Rare/Accidental |
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Barn Owl | Tyto alba | |
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Eurasian Scops-Owl | Otus scops | |
Eurasian Eagle-Owl | Bubo bubo | Rare/Accidental |
Eurasian Pygmy-Owl | Glaucidium passerinum | |
Little Owl | Athene noctua | |
Long-eared Owl | Asio otus | |
Short-eared Owl | Asio flammeus | |
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Eurasian Hoopoe | Upupa epops | |
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Common Kingfisher | Alcedo atthis | |
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Blue-cheeked Bee-eater | Merops persicus | Rare/Accidental |
European Bee-eater | Merops apiaster | |
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European Roller | Coracias garrulus | |
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Eurasian Wryneck | Jynx torquilla | |
Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker | Picoides tridactylus | |
Middle Spotted Woodpecker | Dendrocoptes medius | |
White-backed Woodpecker | Dendrocopos leucotos | |
Great Spotted Woodpecker | Dendrocopos major | |
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker | Dryobates minor | Rare/Accidental |
Eurasian Green Woodpecker | Picus viridis | Rare/Accidental |
Black Woodpecker | Dryocopus martius | Rare/Accidental |
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Lesser Kestrel | Falco naumanni | |
Eurasian Kestrel | Falco tinnunculus | |
Red-footed Falcon | Falco vespertinus | Vulnerable |
Eleonora's Falcon | Falco eleonorae | |
Merlin | Falco columbarius | |
Eurasian Hobby | Falco subbuteo | |
Lanner Falcon | Falco biarmicus | Rare/Accidental |
Saker Falcon | Falco cherrug | Rare/Accidental Endangered |
Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | |
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Rose-ringed Parakeet | Psittacula krameri | Introduced species |
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Eurasian Golden Oriole | Oriolus oriolus | |
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Red-backed Shrike | Lanius collurio | |
Isabelline Shrike | Lanius isabellinus | Rare/Accidental |
Great Gray Shrike | Lanius excubitor | |
Lesser Gray Shrike | Lanius minor | Rare/Accidental |
Woodchat Shrike | Lanius senator | Near-threatened |
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Eurasian Jay | Garrulus glandarius | |
Eurasian Magpie | Pica pica | Rare/Accidental |
Eurasian Nutcracker | Nucifraga caryocatactes | Rare/Accidental |
Red-billed Chough | Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax | Rare/Accidental |
Yellow-billed Chough | Pyrrhocorax graculus | |
Eurasian Jackdaw | Corvus monedula | |
Rook | Corvus frugilegus | Rare/Accidental |
Carrion Crow | Corvus corone | Rare/Accidental |
Hooded Crow | Corvus cornix | |
Common Raven | Corvus corax | |
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Coal Tit | Periparus ater | |
Crested Tit | Lophophanes cristatus | |
Marsh Tit | Poecile palustris | |
Eurasian Blue Tit | Cyanistes caeruleus | |
Great Tit | Parus major | |
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Eurasian Penduline-Tit | Remiz pendulinus | |
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Horned Lark | Eremophila alpestris | |
Greater Short-toed Lark | Calandrella brachydactyla | |
Calandra Lark | Melanocorypha calandra | |
Wood Lark | Lullula arborea | |
Eurasian Skylark | Alauda arvensis | |
Crested Lark | Galerida cristata | Rare/Accidental |
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Bearded Reedling | Panurus biarmicus | Rare/Accidental |
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Zitting Cisticola | Cisticola juncidis | |
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Eastern Olivaceous Warbler | Iduna pallida | Rare/Accidental |
Western Olivaceous Warbler | Iduna opaca | |
Melodious Warbler | Hippolais polyglotta | |
Icterine Warbler | Hippolais icterina | |
Aquatic Warbler | Acrocephalus paludicola | Vulnerable |
Moustached Warbler | Acrocephalus melanopogon | |
Sedge Warbler | Acrocephalus schoenobaenus | |
Marsh Warbler | Acrocephalus palustris | Rare/Accidental |
Common Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus scirpaceus | |
Great Reed Warbler | Acrocephalus arundinaceus | |
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River Warbler | Locustella fluviatilis | Rare/Accidental |
Savi's Warbler | Locustella luscinioides | |
Common Grasshopper Warbler | Locustella naevia | |
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Bank Swallow | Riparia riparia | |
Eurasian Crag-Martin | Ptyonoprogne rupestris | |
Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | |
Western House-Martin | Delichon urbicum | |
Red-rumped Swallow | Cecropis daurica | |
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Wood Warbler | Phylloscopus sibilatrix | |
Western Bonelli's Warbler | Phylloscopus bonelli | |
Yellow-browed Warbler | Phylloscopus inornatus | Rare/Accidental |
Dusky Warbler | Phylloscopus fuscatus | Rare/Accidental |
Willow Warbler | Phylloscopus trochilus | |
Common Chiffchaff | Phylloscopus collybita | |
Greenish Warbler | Phylloscopus trochiloides | Rare/Accidental |
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Cetti's Warbler | Cettia cetti | |
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Long-tailed Tit | Aegithalos caudatus | |
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Eurasian Blackcap | Sylvia atricapilla | |
Garden Warbler | Sylvia borin | |
Barred Warbler | Curruca nisoria | Rare/Accidental |
Lesser Whitethroat | Curruca curruca | |
Western Orphean Warbler | Curruca hortensis | |
Rüppell's Warbler | Curruca ruppeli | Rare/Accidental |
Sardinian Warbler | Curruca melanocephala | |
Moltoni's Warbler | Curruca subalpina | |
Western Subalpine Warbler | Curruca iberiae | |
Eastern Subalpine Warbler | Curruca cantillans | |
Greater Whitethroat | Curruca communis | |
Spectacled Warbler | Curruca conspicillata | |
Marmora's Warbler | Curruca sarda | |
Dartford Warbler | Curruca undata | Near-threatened |
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Goldcrest | Regulus regulus | |
Common Firecrest | Regulus ignicapilla | |
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Wallcreeper | Tichodroma muraria | |
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Corsican Nuthatch | Sitta whiteheadi | Endemic Vulnerable |
Eurasian Nuthatch | Sitta europaea | |
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Eurasian Treecreeper | Certhia familiaris | |
Short-toed Treecreeper | Certhia brachydactyla | Rare/Accidental |
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Eurasian Wren | Troglodytes troglodytes | |
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White-throated Dipper | Cinclus cinclus | |
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European Starling | Sturnus vulgaris | |
Spotless Starling | Sturnus unicolor | |
Rosy Starling | Pastor roseus | Rare/Accidental |
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White's Thrush | Zoothera aurea | Rare/Accidental |
Mistle Thrush | Turdus viscivorus | |
Song Thrush | Turdus philomelos | |
Redwing | Turdus iliacus | Near-threatened |
Eurasian Blackbird | Turdus merula | |
Fieldfare | Turdus pilaris | |
Ring Ouzel | Turdus torquatus | |
Dusky Thrush | Turdus eunomus | Rare/Accidental |
Naumann's Thrush | Turdus naumanni | Rare/Accidental |
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Spotted Flycatcher | Muscicapa striata | |
European Robin | Erithacus rubecula | |
Thrush Nightingale | Luscinia luscinia | Rare/Accidental |
Common Nightingale | Luscinia megarhynchos | |
Bluethroat | Luscinia svecica | |
Red-breasted Flycatcher | Ficedula parva | Rare/Accidental |
Semicollared Flycatcher | Ficedula semitorquata | Rare/Accidental |
European Pied Flycatcher | Ficedula hypoleuca | |
Collared Flycatcher | Ficedula albicollis | |
Common Redstart | Phoenicurus phoenicurus | |
Black Redstart | Phoenicurus ochruros | |
Rufous-tailed Rock-Thrush | Monticola saxatilis | |
Blue Rock-Thrush | Monticola solitarius | |
Whinchat | Saxicola rubetra | |
European Stonechat | Saxicola rubicola | |
Northern Wheatear | Oenanthe oenanthe | |
Isabelline Wheatear | Oenanthe isabellina | Rare/Accidental |
Desert Wheatear | Oenanthe deserti | Rare/Accidental |
Western Black-eared Wheatear | Oenanthe hispanica | |
Eastern Black-eared Wheatear | Oenanthe melanoleuca | Rare/Accidental |
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Bohemian Waxwing | Bombycilla garrulus | Rare/Accidental |
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Alpine Accentor | Prunella collaris | |
Dunnock | Prunella modularis | |
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House Sparrow | Passer domesticus | Rare/Accidental |
Italian Sparrow | Passer italiae | Vulnerable |
Spanish Sparrow | Passer hispaniolensis | |
Eurasian Tree Sparrow | Passer montanus | |
Rock Sparrow | Petronia petronia | |
White-winged Snowfinch | Montifringilla nivalis | |
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Gray Wagtail | Motacilla cinerea | |
Western Yellow Wagtail | Motacilla flava | |
Eastern Yellow Wagtail | Motacilla tschutschensis | Rare/Accidental |
Citrine Wagtail | Motacilla citreola | Rare/Accidental |
White Wagtail | Motacilla alba | |
Richard's Pipit | Anthus richardi | Rare/Accidental |
Tawny Pipit | Anthus campestris | |
Meadow Pipit | Anthus pratensis | |
Tree Pipit | Anthus trivialis | |
Red-throated Pipit | Anthus cervinus | |
Water Pipit | Anthus spinoletta | |
Rock Pipit | Anthus petrosus | |
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Common Chaffinch | Fringilla coelebs | |
Brambling | Fringilla montifringilla | |
Hawfinch | Coccothraustes coccothraustes | |
Common Rosefinch | Carpodacus erythrinus | |
Eurasian Bullfinch | Pyrrhula pyrrhula | Rare/Accidental |
Trumpeter Finch | Bucanetes githagineus | Rare/Accidental |
European Greenfinch | Chloris chloris | |
Eurasian Linnet | Linaria cannabina | |
Common Redpoll | Acanthis flammea | |
Red Crossbill | Loxia curvirostra | |
European Goldfinch | Carduelis carduelis | |
Citril Finch | Carduelis citrinella | |
Corsican Finch | Carduelis corsicana | |
European Serin | Serinus serinus | |
Eurasian Siskin | Spinus spinus | |
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Lapland Longspur | Calcarius lapponicus | |
Snow Bunting | Plectrophenax nivalis | Rare/Accidental |
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Black-headed Bunting | Emberiza melanocephala | |
Red-headed Bunting | Emberiza bruniceps | Uncertain origin |
Corn Bunting | Emberiza calandra | |
Rock Bunting | Emberiza cia | Rare/Accidental |
Cirl Bunting | Emberiza cirlus | |
Yellowhammer | Emberiza citrinella | |
Ortolan Bunting | Emberiza hortulana | |
Reed Bunting | Emberiza schoeniclus | |
Little Bunting | Emberiza pusilla | Rare/Accidental |
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Blackpoll Warbler | Setophaga striata | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
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